I’m reading “In The Spirit of Happiness” by the good-humored Monks of New Skete. It would be nice to give yourself over to God I think – like a monk, a nun. I’m envious of that spiritual based life. Then I read how they support themselves in their spiritual life – farming, constructing their own…
Category: Inspirational Stories Christian Faith
Inspirational stories from people who lived the Christian faith. Gratitude, mercy, forgiveness, praying for their enemies and more. People I admire. And more stories about giving my life to God by giving my to-do list to God.
Does God Understand Business?
I must not think so. Got up last Monday with my list of things to do running through my head. Took them to God and got this – “Forget doing order fulfillment today. Just relax and clean up the office.” I thought – there’s no way I’m letting the orders go unshipped. Monday is our…
Why We Need Christ or How The Atonement Is Like A Dollar
Listen to the 2 minute podcast: If You Haven’t Forgiven, You Haven’t Accepted Christ As Your Savior This is what I was thinking when I started asking just how it helped to have Christ suffer for my sins. How does that work? Is Christ really necessary? How did I come to the conclusion that we…
Are Happy and Cheerful the Same?
I sure hope not. If they are I’m falling short of my goal to learn how God thinks and to do the things that please Him. Way short. It’s this scripture that had me thinking about it. “Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly , or of…
Olga Takes a Chainsaw to a Sad Memory
Olga’s father lived with her so she could care for him as he aged. She was working in the kitchen one day keeping an eye on him through the doorway into the living room. He stood up and headed toward her calling out, “Daughter.” (He always called her daughter.) Just as he got to the…
Happiness| Christ Heals Brother Hill
Brother Hill says after he was baptized people kept coming up to him asking how he felt, if he felt different. He said he didn’t know how to describe it. Then after a couple of weeks he knew what it was. “The hate’s gone,” he says. “I can pass my ex-wife on the street and…
Happiness| If We Had World Peace
If we had world peace, abundance for all including you – what would you be doing? That’s what I asked Parker yesterday. Assume the house is finished, the green house is built. Christ has come again. There is no one that needs our help. How would you spend your time? What is the joy you…
Olga’s Prayer
Olga, a West Virginia mountain woman shared a bit of her life with me the other day. Decades ago she was left a widow with three young children. Shortly after that her husband’s good friend told Olga her husband had asked him to marry Olga to take care of her and the children. Olga did. …